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by czinck 10y ago
True, I got a little carried away with "Vanguard eating the world". I was just trying to get across the scale of 6% of the entire US stock market.
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by czinck 10y ago
Owning a few percent of a Fortune 500 company will probably get you a board seat, and a 10% stake probably makes you the single largest holder (especially ignoring companies still held by the founders/family like Wal-Mart or Google). V
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by czinck 10y ago
How did your friend find an apartment in Bed Stuy for only $450? Rent controlled? Splitting a bedroom with someone else? A quick search on streeteasy gives literally no apartments in Bed Stuy for less than $1k currently available, the cheap
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by czinck 10y ago
Which sending a POST on every keystroke won't really help with anyway, because they can't tell that you typing "h-u-n" will match your old password of "hunter2", assuming it's properly hashed.
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by czinck 10y ago
Is their algorithm so complex that it can't run in a reasonable time using client side javascript? I have trouble thinking of anything that isn't vastly over-engineered and runs slower than the network lag probably is.
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by czinck 10y ago
There's a lot of historical context you're missing if you think axiomatic proofs are meaningless. Around the late 1800s, a few contradictory proofs started popping up because people weren't being rigorous enough (the example
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by czinck 11y ago
I assume that's what the "$1.8 billion in consumer relief" is. Previous settlements over 2008 have also had some of the money earmarked for helping out distressed homeowners that were affected. The JP Morgan settlement in 201
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by czinck 11y ago
That depends, RWD is harder to control even if the weight is on the back. Understeer is much safer than oversteer, unless you're a talented driver who knows what they're doing, and oversteer is way more likely in a RWD car.
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by czinck 11y ago
And I'm sure the TSA agents will love a bunch of people saying "boom" at the airport, although maybe if it desensitizes them to it it's a good thing.
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by czinck 11y ago
Hey, the SR-71 had a way to make hot meals, if you count heating a sandwich up using the cockpit windows as a hot meal.
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by czinck 11y ago
On top of that, when trains (and probably cars too) were first introduced, there were races between trains and horses to see which was faster. Nowadays that's pointless for anything other than short distances, but early on it was a goo
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by czinck 11y ago
On top of what others have said, this actually doesn't apply to RSA at all. There are ways to factor the prime-product used in RSA faster if you believe the 2 primes are close together[1], so any good RSA key generator should be pickin
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by czinck 11y ago
Can be, if it seems likely that the ambition would cause them to leave the company, especially if within a year or 2 of hiring. There are a lot of costs to hiring someone (both money-wise and in opportunity cost) and if they seem likely to
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by czinck 11y ago
An infinite number of small numbers does not always add up to infinity! Since the apparent brightness of a star is an inverse-square law, if you assume there are an infinite number of stars, each 1 light year further away from you in a line
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by czinck 11y ago
Wow, I assumed until your comment they were the same company. Kind of like how Enterprise has (or had) both rent-a-car and rent-a-van for moving, a slight tweak to the actual deliverable but same infrastructure/whatever, I assumed DSC
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by czinck 11y ago
Not really, any long term fixed rate loan had this priced in for months. In fact, the FNMA 30 year interest estimate is slightly lower now than when it opened, opened at 3.040% and is currently at 3.019% (sorry, no internet source available
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by czinck 11y ago
Yeah, it's no longer relevant for that project, but I like the ideas behind Kafka and will probably use it again so I'll look at PyKafka before I look at kafka-python in the future.
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by czinck 11y ago
I'd say the Python library I used was borderline unusable, we stopped using Kafka (it was just a trial period, wasn't rolled to production yet) because of limits in one of the most popular Python interfaces. The interface worked w
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by czinck 11y ago
You believe that Western propaganda? Of course the US wants to discredit red mercury, they're afraid of its true power.
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by czinck 11y ago
As a more dramatic example of companies changing the product without changing the SKU/whatever, the faulty GM ignition switches were changed mid-production (from the bad design) without an update to the product serial number. Confused
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by czinck 11y ago
I haven't worked with it too much, but being on the JVM is one of the things I like about Clojure. The JVM has a huge standard library, but I don't really like Java so Clojure gives me a way to use all that existing code in a lang
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by czinck 11y ago
That's disingenuous. All the emails I get from LinkedIn are unsolicited and I take my normal approach to spam of not responding, because responding only makes the spam more likely. A better example would be someone putting their resume
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by czinck 11y ago
Have you found the cure for cancer and now you're wasting time while waiting for the FDA to approve it?
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by czinck 11y ago
Is your truck gas, or are you towing way more than 5000 lbs? My guess is it would get better than 50% of its range because while you're (practically) doubling the weight, that doesn't matter because of the regenerative braking. El
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by czinck 11y ago
I remember hearing something relatively recently about how they detected some complex molecules with one of the rovers (indicative of life creating them), but the leading theory was that they were leftover from when the rover was being buil
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by czinck 11y ago
I was talking about SLY specifically, but lots of other ETFs had similar moves.
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by czinck 11y ago
If you're gonna look at crazy swings, I have an S&P smallcap 600 index tracking ETF that was down 40% at open. The index itself was only down a few percent, just buy that, wait for liquidity to return, and bam 30% ROI in a few minu
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by czinck 11y ago
According to a comment lower down, Developer Edition is on the alpha branch, so yes, it is a prototype.
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by czinck 11y ago
That string interpolation was one of my least favorite things about Perl. We tended to have "$"s in strings just because of the usecase, and I was so afraid of that accidentally being interpolated that I never used double quotes,
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by czinck 11y ago
Also, the way HN is designed the dupe-check only works on the last N posts (that are in memory), so if you wait a while you can resubmit without any of the tricks others have mentioned. You'll need to wait over a week, though (not sure

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